On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 11:18 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > Certainly an option, but that is a long-term project. > > Out of curiousity, are there other benefits to using coreboot as a core > firmware in QEMU? > > Is there a payload we would ever plausibly use besides OVMF and SeaBIOS?
I like the idea of using Coreboot on the UEFI side — if the most actively used TianoCore platform is CorebootPkg instead of OvmfPkg, that makes it a lot easier for people using *real* hardware with Coreboot to use TianoCore. And it helps to dispel the stupid misconception in some quarters that Coreboot *competes* with UEFI and thus cannot possibly be supported because helping something that competes with UEFI would be bad. > Is there a payload we would ever plausibly use besides OVMF and > SeaBIOS? For my part I want to get to the point where the default firmware shipped with qemu can be OVMF. We have SeaBIOS-as-CSM working, which was one of the biggest barriers. There are a few more things (like NV variable storage, in particular) that I need to fix before I can actually make that suggestion with a straight face though... -- dwmw2
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